Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.